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The horror sensorium : media and the senses

Description

Summary: "Through analyses of various mediums, this volume explores how the horror genre affects the mind and body of the spectator. By examining how these diverse media generate medium-specific corporeal and sensory responses, it reveals how the sensorium interweaves sensory and intellectual encounters to produce powerful systems of perception"

Content

Latest edition,

Introduction -- Horror aesthetics and the sensorium -- Dancing with the living dead: video games, avatars and arms on the brain -- Dark rides, hybrid machines and the multisensory experience -- Paranormal romance: Anita Blake, Sookie Stackhouse and the monsters who love them -- Payback's a bitch! death proof, planet terror and the carnivalization of grindhouse cinema -- Hail to the king! techno-intertexts, video game horror and doom -- Transmedia and the sensorium: from Blair witch to True blood